We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and OpenESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, MuleSoft, Software AG and others in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)."The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."
"Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community."
"The solution offers multiple deployment options."
"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available."
"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."
"The solution has a good graphical interface."
"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."
"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."
"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."
"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"The core is very stable."
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management."
"The price of Mule ESB could improve."
"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."
"Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
"Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason."
"I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."
"The documentation needs to be better."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 45 reviews while OpenESB is ranked 13th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 4 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while OpenESB is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, Oracle SOA Suite and webMethods Integration Server, whereas OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, Oracle Service Bus and Red Hat Fuse.
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